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Strong's #2128 - זִיף
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- Ziph = "battlement"
- n pr m
- a son of Jehaleleel, a descendant of Judah, and brother of Ziphah
- n pr loc
- a city in southern Judah, between Ithnan and Telem; site unknown
- a city of Judah, southeast of Hebron, between Carmel and Juttah in the highland district
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1. proper name, of a location a. city south east from Hebron, Joshua 15:55; 1 Chronicles 2:42; 2 Chronicles 11:8, modern Tell Zîf; Rob BR i. 492,498 Guérin Judée iii. 159 ff.: ׳מִדְבַּרזֿ 1 Samuel 23:14,15; 1 Samuel 26:2 (twice in verse); with ה locative, זִ֫יפָה 1 Samuel 23:24.
b. city of southern Judah Joshua 15:24, site unknown.
2. proper name, masculine a son ofיְהַלֶּלְאֵל of Judah 1 Chronicles 4:16, whether related to
proper name, of a location above does not appear. ᵐ5 Ζαφα, Ζιφ(αι). ( 1 Chronicles 2:42 see above)
זִיף (“borrowed,” [“flowing”], from the root זוּף), [Ziph], pr.name
(1) of a town situate in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55; 2 Chronicles 11:8 in the neighbourhood of which was a desert of the same name, 1 Samuel 23:14, 15 1 Samuel 23:15. Hence the Gentile noun זַיפִי 1 Samuel 23:19, 26:1. [Now زيف Rob. ii. 191.]
(2) of a man, 1 Chronicles 4:16.
